Nonprofit Grants for Individuals

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Visa Pour l'Image (Visa for the Image)

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Application Deadline:

May 19, 2026

Visa Pour l'Image (Visa for the Image), an international photojournalism festival, offers a number of awards to honor top stories from around the world. 

The Canon Female…

Maude’s Awards for Innovation in Alzheimer's Care

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Application Deadline:

May 19, 2026

Grant Range:
$250 - $105500
Average Grant:
$18241

Maude’s Awards for Innovation in Alzheimer's Care, a program of The Richard & Maude M. Ferry Foundation, honors organizations and individuals excelling in the care of persons living with…

New York Foundation for the Arts

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Application Deadline:

May 19, 2026

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) empowers artists across disciplines at critical stages in their creative lives.

The JGS Fellowship for Photography provides cash grants to…

Austin Film Society

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Application Deadline:

May 20, 2026, by 6 p.m.
 

The Austin Film Society's mission is to empower the community to make, watch, and love film and creative media throughout Austin and the state of Texas. The Society's grants program awards funds…

Eduporium Educational Technology Grant

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Applications are accepted from the 1st to the 20th in each month.

The Eduporium Educational Technology Grant program supports nonprofits, school leaders, and teachers across the United States that are implementing STEM program in their classrooms.

Grants…

Austin Film Society

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Application Deadline:

May 20, 2026

Grant Range:
$5000 - $80240
Average Grant:
$25756

The Austin Film Society's mission is to empower the community to make, watch, and love film and creative media throughout Austin and the state of Texas.

The Harrison McClure Endowed Film…

National Academy of Medicine

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Application Deadline:

May 20, 2026

The National Academy of Medicine presents awards annually to recognize singular individuals in the fields of health, medicine, and science.

The Academy accepts nominations for the following…

Ekhagastiftelsen (Ekhaga Foundation)

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Application Deadline:

Applications accepted April 1 - May 20, annually

The Ekhagastiftelsen (Ekhaga Foundation), based in Sweden, promotes human health by supporting the development of better food, natural medicines, and healing practices, and by supporting research…

“Individual grants” are those, as the name applies, that are designed to be awarded to a single person, rather than to an organization or group. Generally, the purpose of this is to support the individual in a particular charitable project they are planning to undertake.

However, nonprofits may need access to individual grants as well. The benefit here is the flexibility - individual grants allow for access to funding for a specific project or program that their regular donations may not cover. This allows an individual within a nonprofit, or affiliated with it, to address unique community needs or to pilot new programming. This is especially useful if the individual in question has unique capabilities or knowledge that allows them to make a special contribution - or if the nonprofit wants to impart training in unique capabilities to an individual.

Individual grants can be found from a wide range of sources, including private scholarships and corporate social responsibility programs. Often these grants will take the form of scholarships or fellowships for professional development. When preparing grant proposals, the individual should try and articulate how the grant can improve their professional development, or how else they might effectively use the funding.

If you need more information on writing award-winning grants, make sure to check out our full overview of the topic. You can also find a wide range of individual grants listed above, all open to application.